as in pile
a quantity of wood heaped together for burning a dead body
a funeral pyre
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Recent Examples of pyre
The flaming-pyre raven flies off.
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Jessica M. Goldstein, Vulture, 6 Aug. 2025
The flames that consumed the dining room and two cabins made an impressive pyre that could be clearly seen from the South Rim, 13 miles across the gorge.
—Tom Zoellner, AZCentral.com, 25 July 2025
The team noted that horses were often part of early Anglo-Saxon cremation pyres to reflect the elevated status of the individual who had died.
—Ashley Strickland, CNN Money, 24 May 2025
But instead of scaring the protestors into submission, the Islamic Republic is fanning the flames of its own funeral pyre.
—Tim Brinkhof, JSTOR Daily, 14 Dec. 2022
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Jessica M. Goldstein, Vulture, 6 Aug. 2025
The flames that consumed the dining room and two cabins made an impressive pyre that could be clearly seen from the South Rim, 13 miles across the gorge.
—Tom Zoellner, AZCentral.com, 25 July 2025
The team noted that horses were often part of early Anglo-Saxon cremation pyres to reflect the elevated status of the individual who had died.
—Ashley Strickland, CNN Money, 24 May 2025
But instead of scaring the protestors into submission, the Islamic Republic is fanning the flames of its own funeral pyre.
—Tim Brinkhof, JSTOR Daily, 14 Dec. 2022
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for pyre
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For a vacuum that’s quiet in operation and capable of tackling messes on hard floors and medium-pile carpets, this is a great pick.—
Nashia Baker,
Architectural Digest,
5 Nov. 2025
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There’s a size limit for leaf piles, according to the city of Sacramento.—
Sarah Linn
November 5,
Sacbee.com,
5 Nov. 2025
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But the mandates also help colleges shovel heaps of bureaucratic muck—validating data for accreditation, carrying out enrollment, flagging troubled students, aggregating metrics of all kinds.—
Ian Bogost,
The Atlantic,
4 Nov. 2025
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This is a different Chenoweth, perhaps closer to the woman that exists offstage, the one that fought her way to the top of the showbiz heap.—
Seth Abramovitch,
HollywoodReporter,
3 Nov. 2025
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Helm topples trees, uproots crops, overturns feed stacks, steals loose blankets.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
3 Nov. 2025
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Its chief investment vehicle is Humain, a homegrown company that is building out a full stack of data centers, cloud capabilities, large language models and applications.—
Tala Alrajjal,
CNN Money,
2 Nov. 2025
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Later, from the top of a steep and very beautiful hill where he is buried, everyone came down to the road except my mother and a friend of my father’s named Arnie.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
4 Nov. 2025
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That's a steep hill to climb for Behn, who seeks to flip the district.—
Vivian Jones,
Nashville Tennessean,
4 Nov. 2025
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Weather has been deteriorating since last week in Nepal, with snowstorms reported on the mountains, the Associated Press reported.—
Helen Regan,
CNN Money,
3 Nov. 2025
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Yonah Mountain Vineyards also pays homage to the iconic mountain by emblazoning its wine bottles and glasses with a bear symbol.—
Crystal Tate,
USA Today,
3 Nov. 2025
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“Pyre.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pyre. Accessed 6 Nov. 2025.
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